Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Baylor College of Medicine Temple Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a four-year categorical neurology residency embedded in a large, faith-founded, not-for-profit health system, based at a 640-bed Level I trauma referral center with a multistate catchment area that generates a busy, subspecialty-rich consult volume (over 2,000 general neurology consults annually) alongside a comprehensive stroke service and epilepsy monitoring unit. The program describes its teaching model as "personalized, similar to a fellowship," with early (PGY2) exposure to subspecialty clinics, procedural proficiency (Botox/injections, VNS/DBS programming, EEG/EMG, LP), and broad elective access (neuro-IR, neuro-ophthalmology, neuropathology, sleep, pain) that clearly supports fellowship-oriented career formation. Research is present and encouraged (clinical projects, funding for conference presentation, stroke research protocol screening) but not positioned as a central identity driver. Graduate outcomes show a strong, consistent pipeline into subspecialty fellowships (epilepsy, neuromuscular, vascular, movement disorders, neurophysiology, neuro-oncology, headache) at both home and outside academic centers, alongside a nurtured internal neurophysiology fellowship and faculty-hiring of its own graduates, indicating the program values residents who will pursue focused subspecialty training and some who will return to strengthen the department.